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lmm W -"Mink UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

WILLIAM S. EATON, OF SAG HARBOR, NEW YORK, ASSIGN'OR T THE EATON- ENGLEENGRAVING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ART OF DESIGNING AND ENGRAVING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,761,dated June 15,1897.

Application filed october 31, 1896- Serial No. 610,662. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. EATON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Sag Harbor, in the county ofSufiolk and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Designing and Engraving Monograms, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in to the manner of making up thepatterns or de signs for monograms to be followed in various worksrelating to the industrial arts; and the object of my improvements is toprovide certain primary designs or patterns consisting of severalalphabets of letters of different shapes and sizes and in any desiredstyle of lettering, each letter being painted or otherwise impressedupon a transparent plate, which lettered plates may be assembled in agreat variety of combinations and arrangements whereby any desiredmonogram may be readily and quickly produced without the necessity ofmaking or drawing a new pattern or design whenever a new monogram isrequired. I attain this object by drawing,

painting, printing, or otherwise marking the desired primary design foreach letter upon a thin plate composed of some transparent material,such as glass, celluloid, paper, &c.

0 By placing one plate above another the two or more designs showthrough the transparent plates and form to the eye one composite designor monogram-pattern which maybe readily followed in various ways intransferring 5 it to or upon the particular work in handfor instance, bythe tracing-point of an engraving-machinethe monogram being reproducedat any desired scale on the article which is to be engraved.

By way of illustration I have described the application of my inventionto the formation of monograms which are to be engraved upon jewelry,silverware, &c. in an en gravin g-machine. I

5 In the drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 represent thin transparentplates upon which are shown the letters B and G, two long and two broad.Fig. 5 represents Fig. 1 placed upon Fig. 4 to form a monogram of twoletters; and Fig. 6 represents Figs. 1, 2, and 3 superimposed one uponthe other in suitable arrangement to make up a monogram of threeletters.

The engraver would be supplied with two alphabets of these long andbroad letters in any desired style of lettering, and he may also have athird alphabet of letters of an intermediate size. When it is desired tomark any article of jewelry, silverware, &(3., with a given monogram,the engraver selects the required letters, places them together one uponanother in the desired arrangement, and inserts the pattern thus formedin his machine, after which he can readily follow the design with thetracer-point, at the same time causing the graving-tool to cut theletters in whatever manner his artistic taste may dictate as to shading,interlacing, &c. Plates carrying a background of scrolls, 650.,

may also be used, and it is at once apparent that from a limited numberof such plates carrying letters, scrolls, &c., an indefinite number ofcombinations and arrangements may be effected by which a great varietyof monograms may be formed. The plates are used over and over again, andby their use the engraver is relieved from the necessity of making anewpattern for each new monogram which he may require, a pattern whichis of no further use to him in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred.

This system is also particularly useful in making up monogram-designs tobe used in embroidery and other art work. Here the composite pattern maybe transferred to the 8-5 fabric to be worked by means of carbon-paperor the pantograph or other suitable means.

I am aware that it is not new to form composite pictures or designs bymeans of transparent plates carrying certain primary pictures ordesigns, and I do not lay claim to this as my invention.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, a set of transparent plates each markedwith a letter of the alphabet, some of the plates being marked With talland narrow letters, and others being marked with short and broadletters, said plates being adapted to be superimposed one upon anotherin the manner described for the purpose of forming monogram-designs forengraving and other purposes.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

WVILLIAM S. EATON. Witnesses:

WM. 0. BARBOUR, THOS. HIGSON.

